Most people dream of a new coat or the latest electronic under their tree on Christmas morning. Me? I dream of vintage! One of my amazing Christmas gifts was a vintage, metal hanging scale! My parents know me too well. I've been eyeing hanging scales ever since I saw this one on a house tour and this one at an antique show. I may be a little biased, but I think the one my parents found is the best. It's in excellent condition and will look great by a kitchen window in future awesome house. Isn't it fun to buy and receive gifts for an imaginary future house? One day...
How was your holiday? Get some goodies? Enjoy time with the family?
My posts might be sporadic this week. I'm still pretending to be on vacation (even as I sit in my gray cubicle). Plus, I'm getting ready for the new year, which hopefully means new things for Please Sir too!
Thanks again to all the participants in the Holiday Post!
46 comments:
I am a scales girl too. I have 2 of them, and love them both. So glad you have parents that get you.
Have fun with the getting ready for the new year. It should be a great one.
Oh thank you! Scales are just so fun...
I *love* this!!! You are one lucky girl.
My Christmas was spent at home, in bed, sick. Boo! Glad to hear yours was a good one :)
Santa was really good to you- I love this scale!! Buying things for your future home just makes it one step closer!
I love the scale! It's sculptural and functional — the ideal.
amazing! i have vintage envy! i love it. i didn't receive much vintage, but i did get a $40 gift certificate to the thrift store in town. ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!! $40 in a thrift store is like $200 in a regular store. even more on half price days!
i love your scale. love it.
What a great present - surprising ones are always the best!
Awesome gift! And I'm glad you have parents who know and love you so well.
How fun! Will you weigh stuff for really, or is it just decorative?
terrific gift. i love it!
wow! what a great gift. i love receiving new old things—it shows that the giver knows me well and pays a lot of attention to me!
you're very lucky!
you have cool parents!
thanks for putting on the fun old photo submissions. I was off the internet during family visiting, so it was amusing to come home all exhausted and get to check all the great entries!
Yay!! You have "weigh" cool parents. (Sorry...holiday has me a bit punchy. ;-)
We all shopped local and from etsy and other crafty fairs/web sites this year, so we enjoyed our gifts and knowing that we supported the "little guys" (and gals).
That is a GREAT gift! New things in store for Please Sir... hmmmmmm
I'm always looking for a new angle for my site.
My favorite gifts were blingy rings from hubby and boys! FUN to wear while blogging and painting!
What a very cool gift. Having received a Dremel and a bike, I completely understand :D
You lucky duck! What a terrific and creative gift, I love those one-of-kind keepers!
Have a wonderful semi-vacationy week!
How fantastic. My grandparents always had a yellow scale similar to your new beauty that hung in their garage. I loved it and dream about having one myself.
wonderful!
this is so cute too!
How stunning! Sounds like you had an excellent Christmas!
Let me know if you ever make it to Melbourne - there are some really cute antique/vintage stores I think you would LOVE...
Happy New Year for tomorrow! x
You are a lucky gal;) That is sweet.
how great are your parents! i looove it!
hope you have a great week .. and happy new year!
Oh, that is very cool! You lucky girl:)
Great gift! (And super cool parents!)
Lucky, lucky you!
I'm with ya on loving vintage! I just adore all things old, it's just so much more meaningful to me!
Glad to hear you had a wonderful Christmas. Wishing you a very Happy New Year:)
Fabulous gift... your parents have great taste! (must be genetic)
I did not recieve anything too "OH MY GOD!" this christmas but that is fine. If only my family and friends could tune into your parents gift wavelengths!
oh, my grandmother has one of these! Aren't they great?
Happy holidays to you and I hope you have a fantastic new year :)
That's lovely! I love how in the one home they had a plant displayed in it - great idea!
Hope you are having a lovely holiday!
AHHHH, how freaking cool! It reminds me of the grocery store when I was a kid, so wonderful. I am like you, please, PLEASE give me vintage any day of the weeeeeek.
You've got my address don't you? Just so you know where to send it? It's a lovely gift and one that I'll treasure! ;)
SCORE! Big time!
now I want one too...I want to put a sweet little plant in it...love this so much! xo t
TOO cool! don't you just love when someone gets you the perfect present? just knowing the time and thought they put into it makes me feel all warm and snuggly.
maybe next year santa will bring the fab house to hang the scale in :)
What an exquisite gift.... your parents know you well! My dear Mum made me the most exquisite tea-time tablecloth and spent the last year embroidering it. My little darlings got what they asked for from Santa... their first ever computer game console (I think I did pretty well depriving them for almost 11 years of their lives!.... good/bad mother?)... Santa brought me a Wii fit to make the most of the electronic era we have entered into.... I am addicted... to Wii yoga and after 4 days... I can't move! My blogging time will have to move to 6am as I am now yoga-ing at 5am! A-M xx
just perfect!
I love the way it looks against the brick wall! I got some vintage sheet music I'm going to have framed.
Wow, this is pretty darn cool! So glad you are enjoying the holidays.
Lovely! I didn't realize how much I missed those old time scales until I saw these photos. It is not nearly as satisfying to weigh your vegetables on one of the digital versions...
it is so cool - i think you could hang it up in your place now and put some neat stuff into it! happy new year!
oh i like that scale!!! if i owned one, i'd be obsessively putting stuff on it to see how much they weigh.
holiday was (is) excellent!
Totally awesome present... Can I come over and weigh some fruit some time?
Whoops...that last comment was mine. For some reason the phrase "can I come over and weigh some fruit some time?" coming out of Edgar's mouth sounds a little too provocative :)
Ha. Here's to a great 2000
uh...3rd comment...2009, not 2000....we've been there already
ah nice. I hope you had a lovely break over the holiday.
Happy New Year!
I'm still recovering from my NYE night out.. grr.
This vintage scale rocks! It would look smashing in a kitchen with fresh fruit in it!
Happy New Year!
Fantastic!
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